Things That Go Bump In The Late Afternoon Between 3:00 And 5:00

OTR usually confines his literary notes to the writers of Georgia, but now and then something emerges in the broader arena that deserves our attention. This is one of those times. It involves the reclusive American poet, Emily Dickinson and her brother's mistress, Mabel Loomis Todd, who brought virtually all of her work to the public's attention after her death. Glenn Reynolds provides the link to the story. It surely helps explain why we have this eccentric, strange, and mysterious poetry that many experts say was generations ahead of the Age of Alienation in the Twentieth century.

Reynolds blogs daily at Instapundit.